One thing about the keyboard that looks nice is the inclusion of the number pad. As far as Acers go, I actually just used one a little while ago and it made me want to pull my hair out. Absolute piece of crap! It seems as if the keyboard on the Sagers is closer to the Macbook Pro keyboard than...
Thanks for all the details. I guess I should have been a bit more clear in that I understand you couldn't possibly have a year of usage on THIS model... just was curious of perhaps how the build quality of older models held up over time. The nVidia driver issue isn't so bad if you use...
So, my nearly 4 year old Thinkpad T61p finally bit the dust outside of its warranty. It's been repaired one before in-warranty but now it's finally officially dead. So, I need a replacement. I've been eyeballing the W520 since they've been announced, but it turns out that the System76 machines...
I would definitely take a look at the new W520's. They do have the new Qudaro 1000M GPU's, optional 1920x1080 screen, 2MP webcam and apparently two microphones to try and alleviate noise from the keyboard and such when you're video conferencing. Plus, they can certainly handle being transported...
From personal experience, either of them will work fine without using Access Connections. Being that the company I work for has used Thinkpads for many years, the first thing we always did (we being the IT department) was remove the Access Connections crap. I swear by the Intel wifi hardware...
well, as far as the power switch, reset switch, HDD LED, etc. the rule of thumb is usually to put the labels on the connectors facing upwards. I have the A8N-E, which is a similar board and that's how I did it and they all work fine.
Some of the newer onboard NIC's use the PCI-E bus from my understanding. I might be wrong but I could swear I've seen a few that use the PCI-E bus instead of the standard PCI bus. Obviously this is only of use if you're using GigE. Then of course there's the old i875 chipset that used a...
Well aboiut the only thing there I haven't tried is going to 2T instead of 1T ram timings. It's been perfectly stable @ 245x10 and I haven't really had much of a need for anything over that so I've not bothered tweaking it anymore. I might play with it some this weekend but I'm not so sure I...
Also AMD dual cores have the advantage of communicating over the Hypertransport link instead of the frontside bus. Thus lower latency and faster communication between the two cores.
I don't know that going over 250Mhz is going to do me a whole lot of good since my RAM doesn't seem to want to go over 210Mhz anyway... on top of that, I have to run 1.525vcore just to get it stable @ 245x10. I don't think I have much headroom left as it stands.
I was under the impression that the 2T performance hit was on the order of 3-6% depending on application.... am I wrong? Or is the performance GAIN from the higher HT setting less than the 6% performance loss you get from going to 2T?
wrong... it'll go to 3x just fine and STILL won't boot at over 245... the only thing I haven't tried is an older BIOS rev, which I'll do when I get home from work in the morning. The HTT setting works perfectly fine without issue and the AUTO setting works great as well. Basically when I try to...
the RAM isn't the problem... I even set the RAM @ 100Mhz and CPU multi @ 5x to find out the board's max overclock, thus taking the rest of the components out of the equation... As such, it'll boot fine @ 245 and won't boot at all at 250. As far as the HTT goes, I've tried both auto (works fine...
good lord... my Corsair 3200LL tops out @ 210Mhz no matter what timings I use. I think it's partly because I have two different sticks.. one's rev 1.1 (BH5) the other is rev 1.2 (CH5).
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